Oh no XD I'm so worried about the first flight we have to take with my now two year old. She flew every month from 6w til 18m and did great on my lap but now we'd have to buy a seat and I'm pretty sure she'd scream her head off if I tried to get her to sit alone!

I did a lot of Redditgifts ones and got no gift three times in a row and didn't get rematched and then got a boring cheap gift the next one so I started just doing the exchanges that get organised in the sub and they're much better

It is so common to find out you have super low iron with the GD test! Mine was <3 for my first pregnancy, and then I lost 1300ml blood, and it was super shitty so definitely take all the supplements and eat lots of steak!

My first baby was bad at breastfeeding. It got easier after a couple of months but it wasn't great, she just wasn't good at latching and didn't like to stay on for long. My supply suffered and we stopped at 5 months.

Second baby was just as hard starting out, and she had a tongue tie and lots of problems with swallowing air, but now at 9 weeks it's easy. I'm happy breastfeeding and it just works really well.

We've got three packs of wooden blocks, a car ramp thing, bucket spade and excavator set, bath toys, bath toy caddy, some shoes, train set, and I'm planning on getting an easel too.
I went a bit crazy buying things because it's kiddos first Christmas that she's old enough to know it's exciting (she's two and a bit), and she lost her mind over the gifts at her birthday so I wanted lots for her to unwrap. We're going to donate a bunch of older toys so we don't overflow with crap. If she didn't need anything new and I didn't want to buy stuff I would totally just wrap older things instead. I say do that.

Graphghans can be fairly easy, especially like OPs which is just in single crochet, you just have to follow the chart to keep track of your color changes and if you had an image with only two or three colors it wouldn't be nearly so complicated

We have a Mitsubishi outlander and love it to bits. I've been learning to drive in it and it's really easy, fits three car seats and has heaps of boot space. And it's got surprisingly good fuel efficiency!

I've been confused about that line too, I think the man at the atm is the one who helped extinguish the fire, they've just written it in an ambiguous way which makes it sound like the man at the atm is the one who lit the fire

Will be sending labour vibes! But don't stress, big babies are cuter haha. I had a 4.3kg baby vaginally, no epidural, no issues and a super easy recovery (second degree tear and 700ml blood loss). In fact the recovery was heaps easier than it had been with my 4kg baby! Was your first big?

We wanted four years apart but baby rabies got the better of us and we started trying when baby1 was ten months old. Now I've got a two and a bit year old and a 7 week old! I'm happy with the age gap we ended up with. It's really really fucking hard but i think after a few months it will be easier than a larger age gap would have been.

I used to work in childcare and saw siblings with all different age gaps and there was no pattern with how good or bad they were, it really depends on the kids.

I've got a 7 week old and two year old. It's hard, super hard. The first 6 weeks we had the TV on probably 10 hours a day and sometimes I forgot to change toddlers nappy for 7 hours. We had a lot of convenience food. The main thing is to keep everyone alive, and if that involves a lot of TV and unhealthy food then that's still a win in my books.

Some of the things I found good to keep us busy and occupied was going for walks, sometimes to the park during babys nap time so toddler could let some energy out, sometimes it was just to the fish and chip shop so we could get chips and then walk home and eat chips for lunch. Sometimes if I knew toddler needed some tiring out before bed I'd put the baby in the carrier and just walk up and down the street a couple of times with toddler. The best thing was going to playgroup, everyone said I was crazy for getting out with a newborn and toddler but honestly doing that was easier than staying home sometimes. Baby almost always just slept the whole time and toddler got to play and socialise, it was perfect.

Now that baby is a bit older and has more of a predictable routine I just take huge advantage of naps. When she's asleep the TV goes off, and we do stuff like drawing, baking, go to the park, go out for coffee, do laundry, play in the garden. I move the rocker around with us for baby to sleep in and we often get a good 30 minutes of play before I have to go back to feeding or whatever. It makes the day go faster and keeps things interesting. I'd still bloody kill for just one day of childcare but it's not possible so we just take it one day at a time and try not to go mad!